CVE-2026-59119

PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.38 % · percentile 32 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Incorrect default permissions in Microsoft PowerShell allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-276 — Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · PowerShell 7.4affected 7.4.0 < 7.4.19.0
Microsoft · PowerShell 7.5affected 7.5.0 < 7.5.10.0
Microsoft · PowerShell 7.6affected 7.6.0 < 7.6.5

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD